Improvement in weather-strips



To-allvwhorn t/may concern: i

side with equal effect.` l `A, in the drawing, represents a door, to which, in a case,fB, my improved apparatus is secured;

'strut @time `wILLrAtli "ifiiENRY BURGHARDT, or cURTIsvILLn, MASSACHUSETTS.

f IMPRovnMENT 1N WEATHER-STRIPS.

HThgSoheduI-e. referred to in these Letters Patent and'mai'x'ing part of the same v Be it known that'I, W'ILLIAM EEN-nr BURGHARDT, ot' Ourtisville,in the county of Berkshire and State of Massacl1usetts,havefinvented a new and improved Weather-Strip;` andI do hereby declare that the fol- `lowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', "which will enable others skilled inthe art to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanyl ing `d rawing forming part of this specifcation- Figure Li` representsa'vertical longitudinal section l of'dmy improved weather-strip, showing it applied -to l a oor.`

Figure 2 isafvertical transverse section of the Figure Bisou-lince view of a modification of thesame.

y Similar letters of reference .indicate corresponding `parts. l Y,

` This invention relates to a new manner of securing weather-ships to` doors with an object 'of making them `automaticallyadjustable, so thati they will only he projectedygfrom their sockets whenthedoors are closed, and drawn in when tbe same are opened.

` The'main object'ofthe invention is to so construct such adjustable weather-strips that the same can be operated from either end, and consequently applied todoors that open in `either direction.

The inventionconsists in combining, with a weatherstrip which is suspended from springs, a T-shaped lever, pivoted tothe door, and `a sliding lever, which,

when pushed against the upward projecting armot said lever, willcau'seitto swing and force the'weatherstrip downward. W y l 4"The slide may be applied tothe lever from either The wcatherfstripO co sts of a wooden or metal bar, a, with arubber strip, b, attached to `the lower partofthe same; Itis fitted into vthe case B in such manner that it can readily `work up and down in' the same, and is, by meansof straps cc, suspended from springs D, that are secured in the case. l

The springs draw the strip c up, so that it will not project from the edge of the door.

E is aT-shaped, t. e., three-armed lever, pivoted within the case B 'in such manner that its horizontal arms d al will be flush with the upper edge of the weather-strip when the arm is drawn up, as in Iig. 3.

F is a librizontal sliding rod or bar inserted into the case at'one end. When it is pushed against the `vertical arm e of the lever T from either side it will cause said lever to swing and thereby push, with the downwardly carried arm al, the strip O down. The slide F is operated by a wedge or knob, f, securedto the doorcase.

When the door is closed the vslide is pushed in by the wedge to protect the weather-strip.

`The T-shaped lever E permits -the application of the ,slide to 4either side, 'and a case, B, ready made and ,providedlwith'all the aforesaid appliances can4 therefore Abe secured toeither side of a door, and to doors swinging indi'erent directions. y

If desired, two or more -such levers', E, may hersecnred into one case, B, as in fig. 3, with a rod, g, bctween them to communicate the motion from one to another. A Y l Having' thus described my invention,

I claim asnew and desireA to secure by Letters Iatent.l f

,l. Bar a and rubber strip b, combined with case B, straps c c, springs D D, lever E, d d c, slide vstrips F, and wedge j, al1-relatively constructed and arranged as and for the purpose described.A t f 2. The three-armed; lever E, el d e, rods F, 'and wedge, f, all relatively"l constructed and arranged as me this 9th day of February, 1870. I

WILLIAM` HENRY BURGHARD'I.

Witnesses:

GEo. W. MABEE, ALEX; F. ROBERTS. 

